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William Maguire Planetary Systems Laboratory NASA/GSFC, Code 693.0 Greenbelt, MD 20771 Phone: (301) 286-3025 Email: William Maguire

Current Position

Astrophysicist, Planetary Systems Laboratory

Education

1964: A.B., Physics, Harvard University
1968: M.S., Physics, University of Minnesota
1973: Ph.D., Physics, Catholic University

PROFESSIONAL Society Membership

American Physical Society

American Geophysical Union

Division for Planetary Sciences/AAS

COMMITTEES

Technical Assistance Group, Space Sciences

Computing Center contract, 1980

HQ Review panel, Mars Data Analysis Program, 2000, 2001

HQ Review panel, Planetary Atmospheres Program, 2002

AWARDS

Harvard Club of Washington, D.C. Scholarship, 1960

Group Achievement Award, Voyager Infrared

Interferometer Investigation, 1990

Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics.

Voyager Neptune Encounter Team, 1990

Sir Harold Thompson Memorial Award, Spectrochimica Acta, 1993 (Co-author)

Performance Award in recognition of exceptional service in performance of official duties, 1999

Special Act Award, 2001

Professional Experience

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE:Intermediate Energy Nuclear Physics, Infrared Astronomy and Molecular Physics, Planetary Atmospheres.

Research Activities:
1968-72: Investigator, Nimbus 4 IR Spectroscopy expt.
1972-77: Investigator, Mars Mariner 9 IR Spectroscopy expt.
1972-1992: Co-I., Voyager IR Spectroscopy expt.
1980-85: Co-I., Stratospheric IR Spectroscopy expt.
1981-84: P.I., Jupiter Data Analysis Program
1990-93: P.I., Neptune Data Analysis Program
1993-96: Co-I., Comet Shoemaker-Levy Visible/IR expt.
1998-: P.I., Mars Data Analysis Program

APPOINTMENTS:Investigator, Nimbus 4 IR Spectroscopy expt. Investigator, Mars Mariner 9 IR Spectroscopy expt. Co-I., Voyager IR Spectroscopy expt. Co-I., Stratospheric IR Spectroscopy expt. P.I., Jupiter Data Analysis Program. P.I., Neptune Data Analysis Program. Co-I., Comet Shoemaker-Levy Visible/IR expt. P.I., Mars Data Analysis Program.

Selected Publications

2006  "The Influence of Non-LTE Effects in the Martian Atmosphere on 15μm CO₂ Limb Temperature Retrievals," W.C. Maguire, J.C. Pearl, M.D. Smith, B.J. Conrath, A.A. Kutepov, A.G. Feofilov, and P.R. Christensen, to be submitted.

2006  "Spontaneous emission Einstein coefficients of CO₂ and CO₂⁺ : Identification of the Ion in Mars' MGS/TES Limb Spectra," C. Leonard, M. Diehr, P. Rosmus, and W. Maguire, to be submitted to J. Quant. Spectros. Rad. Transfer.

2005  "Detection in the Infrared of Mg+^. CO₂ Ion produced via Meteoritic Material in the Martian Atmosphere," W.C. Maguire and A.A. Aikin, in preparation.

2005  "Mars Tropospheric Temperatures from Near-IR, Ground-based Spectral Imaging," D.A. Glenar, W.C. Maguire, M.D. Smith, G.L. Bjoraker, J.C. Pearl, D.L. Blaney, in preparation.

2003  "Non-LTE Problem for Molecular Gas in Planetary Atmospheres," A.A. Kutepov, A.G. Feofilov, W.C. Maguire, and O.A. Gusev, Astron. Nachr. Suppl., 324, 3,.

2002  "Observations of High Altitude CO₂ Hot Bands in Mars by the Orbiting Thermal Emission Spectrometer," W.C. Maguire, J.C. Pearl, M.D. Smith, B.J. Conrath, A.A. Kutepov, M.S. Kaelberer, E. Winter, P.R. Christensen, , J.G.R. 107 (E9), 5063, doi:10.1029/2001JE001516.

2001  "Measurements of Non-Thermal Infrared Emission Lines of Carbon Dioxide in the Mars Upper Atmosphere," T.A. Livengood, T. Kostiuk, W.C. Maguire, J.D. Delgado, J.C. Pearl, M.D. Smith, D. Deming, F. Espenak, T. Hewagama, BAAS 33 [44.03].

2001  "Observations of High Altitude CO₂ Hot Bands on Mars by the Orbiting Thermal Emission Spectrometer," W.C. Maguire, J.C. Pearl, M.D. Smith, B.J. Conrath, A.A. Kutepov, M.S. Kaelberer, E. Winter, P.R. Christensen, BAAS 33 [44.04].

2000  "Mars Global Surveyor Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) observations: Atmospheric temperatures during aerobraking and science phasing," Barney J. Conrath, John C. Pearl, Michael D. Smith, William C. Maguire, Philip R. Christensen, Shymala Dason, and Monte S. Kaelberer, JGR 105 E4 9509-9519.

2000  "Observations of High Altitude CO₂ Hot Bands in Mars Global Surveyor TES Limb Tangent Spectral Averages," W.C. Maguire, J.C. Pearl, M.D. Smith, B.J. Conrath, A.A. Kutepov, M.S. Kaelberer, E. Winter, P.R. Christensen, BAAS 32 [51.25].